I agree with the guy in the article who said they should have offered a much larger number of shares at a much lower price. Joe Blow is a lot more likely to throw some "play money" into Google if his say, $1000 buys him 40 or so shares rather than 12.
I mean, the number of possible messages greatly exceeds the number of possible hashes, since the hashes are of fixed length. So, isn't it just a matter of time before a collision is found for any given CHF?
Well, the RAM in your computer works on a similar principle and tolerates an absolute shitload more reads and writes in its lifetime than your hard disk will.
Flash and RAM work on a similar principle? I don't know about that. The DRAM in your PC is pretty much equivalent to tiny capacitors. I don't know much about the detail of Flash memory, but it's significantly different in at least that its non volatile and non capacitor based.
Obviously you know little about Schwarzenegger's politics. He's very much a moderate; a fiscal conservative, but a social liberal. Some of his best friends are prominent Dems (eg Tom Arnold). I don't find the proposal at odds with his views at all.
IE's popup blocker is pretty slick. It will show a little dropdown area above the current page asking about the popup, if it should be displayed, etc. Neat. I do wish Firefox would do this instead of the small icon in the lower right of Firefox's window. It isn't enough to make me stop using Firefox, though.
Recent Firefox nightlies have this exact feature. Blatantly copied from IE yes, but hey if it's nice then what the hell. The icon on the status bar is still there as well.
Hasn't it already been established that iPod sales are NOT leading to Mac sales? I thought Apple had just accepted that. Honestly, if driving people to Macs was their ultimate goal, they should never have ported iTunes to Windows.
can someone explain why Apple wants to limit what can be played on the iPod? Is it not the iPod that makes all the money for them? iTunes is just a gateway that's supposed to lead people to the iPod, why not have more of them?
I'm with you. My grandfather was also a Western Electric engineer, my grandmother for NY Telephone and my dad worked for AT&T, but now is retired and gets his benefits from Lucent. I kind of always thought about trying to find a job with them, it's the closest thing we have to a family business. My father always claimed that they "really eat that shit up", but I'm guessing those days are over. Personally, I still get decent service from AT&T long distance, at least it's plenty good enough for what little LD calling I do.
A big part of the reason for that is that the Bell Labs division went to Lucent when it split off. I think it's terrible that Lucent is on it's last legs, most people have no idea how many innovations came out of that group of people.
That would require Ebay to get involved with transactions, which isn't likely. They like being able to simply wash their hands of anything that goes awry.
Man, thanks for that link. I admit that I too often neglect to express my opinions to our legislature, even though I know we need to. But you providing that link just made it really easy to just click and do it.
These exploits are just the price of success in the browser business. I have no doubt that Mozilla products are more secure than IE, but even if significant holes are found, I'll put the turnaround time for the fix up against MS track record anyday.
Just delete your profile folder. Although I'm not 100% sure where it is under Win98. Some changes have been made to the profile system yes, but it's in the interest of long term consistency and stability. Considering this is still "technology preview" software, it's not worth the effort to write code to migrate people's profiles and such.
Agreed that Charamel rules. I'm really sorry to see that lucx pulled it from the official theme site. Honestly though, the theme is so good that I'm sure it'll remain one of the more popular ones despite that.
You must not have liked it too much to have given up so easily. Deleting your profile, either via the profile manager or manually and then reinstalling would have most likely solved your problem. Considering Firefox takes 1 minute to install, it's not that big a deal.
This has been an issue for a while now. The solution looks like it's going to be that you have to restart Firefox for the theme change to take effect. See here
Actually the Athlon64 is not starved for memory bandwidth like Prescott is, as evidenced by the new socket 939 dual channel CPUs performing pretty much on par with the old socket 754 single channel ones. As for hard drives, existing ones can't even saturate the 133MB/s UDMA PATA interface, let alone the 150MB/s SATA. The problem is the drives themselves need higher rotational speeds/lower latencies.
Since when does *Spyware* have fine print? So what you're saying is that you think that all Spyware identifies itself in some way shape or form. While WhenU's software apparently does give the user some indication of what it is (probably buried 3/4 of the way down in an EULA no one reads), most Spyware installs itself WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT.
Well IANAL either, but considering I think the language in the DMCA specifically says *copy* protection, I think an attorney would have a hard time arguing that it should apply here.
But, what I do is UNDERclock my CPU so that it runs cooler, thus needing fewer/quieter fans. I don't need all 2.4ghz, so I send the FSB and voltage down a bit. And then, instead of hitting 45 celsius when idle and fans blazing, I get around 40 degrees, and can't hear the fan at all. If I need to do something intensive, I just reboot, change to default and flip the switch that turns the fan on "high" mode.
Or, you could just get an Athlon 64 CPU and use Cool and Quiet. My 3000+ idles around 36C and runs at 997Mhz until I do something that requires it to ramp up to the full 2Ghz. The fans adjust as well. All automagically with no reboots.
It's not that simple. You're leaving out the fact that some will simply buy the faster (read: higher margin) Intel processor, which I'm sure is what they intend.
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I agree with the guy in the article who said they should have offered a much larger number of shares at a much lower price. Joe Blow is a lot more likely to throw some "play money" into Google if his say, $1000 buys him 40 or so shares rather than 12.
I mean, the number of possible messages greatly exceeds the number of possible hashes, since the hashes are of fixed length. So, isn't it just a matter of time before a collision is found for any given CHF?
Well, the RAM in your computer works on a similar principle and tolerates an absolute shitload more reads and writes in its lifetime than your hard disk will.
Flash and RAM work on a similar principle? I don't know about that. The DRAM in your PC is pretty much equivalent to tiny capacitors. I don't know much about the detail of Flash memory, but it's significantly different in at least that its non volatile and non capacitor based.
Obviously you know little about Schwarzenegger's politics. He's very much a moderate; a fiscal conservative, but a social liberal. Some of his best friends are prominent Dems (eg Tom Arnold). I don't find the proposal at odds with his views at all.
Do you have a choice of whether or not to backup your files? If not, do they provide a facility to delete the backup afterwards?
IE's popup blocker is pretty slick. It will show a little dropdown area above the current page asking about the popup, if it should be displayed, etc. Neat. I do wish Firefox would do this instead of the small icon in the lower right of Firefox's window. It isn't enough to make me stop using Firefox, though.
Recent Firefox nightlies have this exact feature. Blatantly copied from IE yes, but hey if it's nice then what the hell. The icon on the status bar is still there as well.
How about "Stay the fuck out of my car, eh?"
I think it's pretty obvious that "Our Consumers" is meant to mean in the consumers in thier jurisdiction. Take off your tinfoil hat.
Hasn't it already been established that iPod sales are NOT leading to Mac sales? I thought Apple had just accepted that. Honestly, if driving people to Macs was their ultimate goal, they should never have ported iTunes to Windows.
can someone explain why Apple wants to limit what can be played on the iPod? Is it not the iPod that makes all the money for them? iTunes is just a gateway that's supposed to lead people to the iPod, why not have more of them?
I'm with you. My grandfather was also a Western Electric engineer, my grandmother for NY Telephone and my dad worked for AT&T, but now is retired and gets his benefits from Lucent. I kind of always thought about trying to find a job with them, it's the closest thing we have to a family business. My father always claimed that they "really eat that shit up", but I'm guessing those days are over. Personally, I still get decent service from AT&T long distance, at least it's plenty good enough for what little LD calling I do.
A big part of the reason for that is that the Bell Labs division went to Lucent when it split off. I think it's terrible that Lucent is on it's last legs, most people have no idea how many innovations came out of that group of people.
That would require Ebay to get involved with transactions, which isn't likely. They like being able to simply wash their hands of anything that goes awry.
I'll never understand comments like these that give us an unsolicited opinion on something totally unrelated to the topic at hand. Boo.
Man, thanks for that link. I admit that I too often neglect to express my opinions to our legislature, even though I know we need to. But you providing that link just made it really easy to just click and do it.
These exploits are just the price of success in the browser business. I have no doubt that Mozilla products are more secure than IE, but even if significant holes are found, I'll put the turnaround time for the fix up against MS track record anyday.
Just delete your profile folder. Although I'm not 100% sure where it is under Win98. Some changes have been made to the profile system yes, but it's in the interest of long term consistency and stability. Considering this is still "technology preview" software, it's not worth the effort to write code to migrate people's profiles and such.
Agreed that Charamel rules. I'm really sorry to see that lucx pulled it from the official theme site. Honestly though, the theme is so good that I'm sure it'll remain one of the more popular ones despite that.
You must not have liked it too much to have given up so easily. Deleting your profile, either via the profile manager or manually and then reinstalling would have most likely solved your problem. Considering Firefox takes 1 minute to install, it's not that big a deal.
This has been an issue for a while now. The solution looks like it's going to be that you have to restart Firefox for the theme change to take effect. See here
Actually the Athlon64 is not starved for memory bandwidth like Prescott is, as evidenced by the new socket 939 dual channel CPUs performing pretty much on par with the old socket 754 single channel ones. As for hard drives, existing ones can't even saturate the 133MB/s UDMA PATA interface, let alone the 150MB/s SATA. The problem is the drives themselves need higher rotational speeds/lower latencies.
Since when does *Spyware* have fine print? So what you're saying is that you think that all Spyware identifies itself in some way shape or form. While WhenU's software apparently does give the user some indication of what it is (probably buried 3/4 of the way down in an EULA no one reads), most Spyware installs itself WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT.
Well IANAL either, but considering I think the language in the DMCA specifically says *copy* protection, I think an attorney would have a hard time arguing that it should apply here.
But, what I do is UNDERclock my CPU so that it runs cooler, thus needing fewer/quieter fans. I don't need all 2.4ghz, so I send the FSB and voltage down a bit. And then, instead of hitting 45 celsius when idle and fans blazing, I get around 40 degrees, and can't hear the fan at all. If I need to do something intensive, I just reboot, change to default and flip the switch that turns the fan on "high" mode.
Or, you could just get an Athlon 64 CPU and use Cool and Quiet. My 3000+ idles around 36C and runs at 997Mhz until I do something that requires it to ramp up to the full 2Ghz. The fans adjust as well. All automagically with no reboots.
It's not that simple. You're leaving out the fact that some will simply buy the faster (read: higher margin) Intel processor, which I'm sure is what they intend.